Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Backend (US - Remote or Calgary)

Syndio; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first (US & Canada)

Equity

Health/dental/vision coverage

Paid time off (up to 20 days Canada)

Sick time & leave

Voting leave

Job summary

Syndio is hiring a Senior or Staff Backend Engineer to join its core platform engineering group. You will own end-to-end delivery of high-throughput distributed services powering pay-governance and pay-equity analysis for enterprise HR, compensation, and finance leaders.

Design, ship, and operate core microservices, build real-time pipelines with Kafka, and architect APIs across REST, GraphQL, and gRPC. You’ll scale Postgres schemas and manage cloud infra on GCP/AWS with Terraform and CI/CD via

Qualifications

• 7+ years building backend systems in production at scale.
• Deep proficiency in Go and Python with concurrent/high-performance design.
• Strong Postgres and ORM fundamentals, including query optimization and migration strategy.
• Hands-on experience with Kafka-based event-driven architectures.
• Production API expertise across REST, GraphQL, and/or gRPC.
• Operational mindset with observability tooling such as Datadog and distributed tracing.

Responsibilities

• Design, ship, and operate core distributed microservices written primarily in Go and Python.
• Build real-time event streaming and data processing pipelines using Kafka.
• Architect performant APIs across REST, GraphQL, and gRPC protocols.
• Model schemas and tune query performance on Postgres with modern ORM tooling.
• Provision and scale cloud infrastructure on GCP and AWS using Terraform and GitHub Actions CI/CD.
• Monitor reliability, latency, and operational health with Datadog and respond to production incidents.

Skills

Go

Python

PostgreSQL fundamentals

Kafka

API design

Observability

Distributed systems

Tools

Kafka

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Datadog

PostgreSQL

ORM tooling

GCP

AWS

Job description

Role overview

A compensation intelligence platform is hiring a Senior or Staff Backend Engineer to join its core platform engineering group. The team builds the high-throughput distributed services that power pay-governance and pay-equity analysis for enterprise HR, compensation, and finance leaders, and the role carries end-to-end ownership from API design through production operations.

Responsibilities

• Design, ship, and operate core distributed microservices written primarily in Go and Python.
• Build real-time event streaming and data processing pipelines using Kafka.
• Architect performant APIs across REST, GraphQL, and gRPC protocols.
• Model schemas and tune query performance on Postgres with modern ORM tooling.
• Provision and scale cloud infrastructure on GCP and AWS using Terraform and GitHub Actions CI/CD.
• Monitor reliability, latency, and operational health with Datadog and respond to production incidents.

Requirements

• 7+ years building and operating backend systems in production at scale.
• Deep proficiency in Go and Python, including concurrent and high-performance designs.
• Strong Postgres and relational ORM fundamentals, including query optimization and migration strategy.
• Hands-on experience designing and maintaining Kafka-based event-driven architectures.
• Production API expertise across REST, GraphQL, and/or gRPC.
• Operational mindset with observability tooling such as Datadog, distributed tracing, and metrics.

Nice to have

• Experience proposing technical direction in written design docs and leading rigorous PR reviews.
• Comfort owning a domain with light supervision and carrying the pager for what you ship.

Benefits and work setup

• Remote-first within the US and Alberta, with a non-mandatory Calgary office available.
• Targeted compensation of USD 180,000 to 210,000 or CAD 175,000 to 205,000, depending on experience.
• Equity participation, flexible vacation policy (up to 20 days PTO in Canada), paid sick and safe time, compassion leave, and voting leave.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage with the employer paying 90% of employee premiums and 50% for dependents, plus full-premium life and disability insurance.